(Updated at 7:29 p.m.) DOUGLASSVILLE - The Wawa on Benjamin Franklin Highway was closed for over an hour on Friday night while police investigated a possible bomb threat.

It turns out, the threat was a false alarm because the bomb was actually an electrical conduit covered in PVC pipe from an old lamp in the back parking lot.

Police responded to the Wawa around 5:30 p.m. and when they arrived, the connivence store had already been cleared of customers and the employees were sitting on the far edge of the grass lawn near the westbound highway traffic.

The continuos rush hour westbound traffic was a strange juxtaposition to empty eastbound lanes of the highway.

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The Reading Police Bomb Squad quickly deployed the robot once they arrived around 6:20 p.m.

Their robot was out for about five minutes when it was confirmed, by looking at the video footage sent from the robot, that there was no bomb threat.

(Updated at 6:34 p.m.) Route 422 eastbound near Maplewood Drive in Amity is being reopened after the device thought to be a bomb turned out to be old electrical wires covered by a PVC pipe, according to a reporter on scene.

The device was discovered near the Wawa along the access road from Maplewood Drive on the island that split Route 422. The eastbound side of the highway had been closed for about an hour and a half while police cleared the scene and the device was assessed.

“Douglassville can now go back to normal,” one officer said as the area was cleared of tape.

About five minutes after the police had opened the roads leading to the gas station, it was full of customers.